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This week, we focus on going after what you want (and getting it), beautiful vs practical advice, building a band, useful sales advice, and some wise words from Steve Jobs. And... CLICK HERE to read our USA Today Best-Selling book, The Score That Matters.

#627: Jenny Wood - How To Go After What You Want and Get It

​Jenny Wood spent 18 years at Google where she grew from entry-level to executive, and she most recently led a large operations team that helped drive tens of billions of revenue per year. She is the author of Wild Courage - Go After What You Want and Get It. We discuss how to create serendipity, write a Monday "mini-festo," set huge goals in public, Lady Gaga, and much more. You can also WATCH our conversation on YouTube.​

Beautiful vs. Practical Advice

The advice that sounds the best in the short run is always the most dangerous in the long run. Everyone wants the secret, the key, the magical low-risk, high-return investment that can double your money in no time. Everyone wants to chase the returns of whatever has been hottest and to shun whatever has gone cold. When advice needs to be personal but you think it’s universal, it’s common to default to what sounds the best, the most intelligent, and the most complex. People drift from practical towards beautiful. CLICK HERE to read more.

"The Baddest Thing I'd Ever Seen"

I'm starting to publish on Substack. Thought you might like to read it. Here's a short essay on how Dave Matthews formed his band.

How To Sell

​This post contains everything Nabeel Qureshi wishes he’d known, before he started his company about the sales process. It’s really hard to find good information about sales without a lot of fluff, so he set out to write down as much as he could about it. CLICK HERE to read it.

Wise Words...

"Life can be so much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again." - Steve Jobs​

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Ryan Hawk Author: The Score That Matters, Welcome to Management, & The Pursuit of Excellence​ Host: The Learning Leader Show​